Dragon Spirit

source: wikidata1987 video game

source: wikipedia_enDragon Spirit is a 1987 vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released by Atari Games in North America. Controlling the dragon Amur, the player must complete each of the game's nine areas to rescue the princess Alicia from the demon Zawell. Similar to Namco's own Xevious, Amur has a projectile weapon for destroying air-based enemies and a bomb for destroying ground enemies. It ran on the Namco System 1 arcade board. Music for the game was composed by Shinji Hosoe and designed by Tatsuya Ishikawa. Hosoe, previously a graphics artist for Namco, was allowed to work on the music himself due to most of the company's composers working on Genpei Tōma Den. However, much of his work was accidentally wiped from the hardware midway through development, forcing him to start over. Ishikawa previously created character artwork for Rolling Thunder, being assigned to the project after taking an interest in the enemy designs. The game was dedicated to Shouichi Fukatani, a Namco programmer who had died a few years earlier in 1985 and worked on many of the company's older games, such as Dig Dug and Super Pac-Man. The game was ported to several ho

source: wikidata1987年のナムコのビデオゲーム

source: wikipedia_ja『ドラゴンスピリット』(DRAGON SPIRIT) は、1987年6月20日に稼動を開始した、ナムコのアーケード用縦スクロールシューティングゲーム。略称はドラスピ。 オリジナルであるアーケード版はマザーボードシステム87用のソフトとして制作、稼働当初は「ロマンシング・シューティングゲーム」と銘打たれていた。後にプレイヤー操作キャラ「ブルードラゴン」の移動速度が上げられるなどの変更を施されたニューバージョンが追加された。 続編として1989年にファミリーコンピュータ用ソフトとして発売された『ドラゴンスピリット 新たなる伝説』、1990年に主にシステム的な部分を継承しアップグレードしたアーケードゲーム作品『ドラゴンセイバー』がある。